Test 12 · ★ · Fairy Book, Prince Mirliflor: the bees steal the twelve ma…
What did the two of them do before sunrise at the fountain?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: two · What happens: do · To what, where: fountain
This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1876 «Fairy Book, Prince Mirliflor: the bees steal the twelve maidens, and Rosanella returns to marry the Prince» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.
The question
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 two | det |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 do | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 them | case |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 two | nmod |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 did | parataxis |
| 8 | before | before | ADP | _ | 9 sunrise | case |
| 9 | sunrise | sunrise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 do | obl |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 fountain | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 fountain | det |
| 12 | fountain | fountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 do | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | do | present | the two of them | the fountain | sunrise | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
They got distracted picking flowers for each other
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 distracted | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 distracted | aux:pass |
| 3 | distracted | distract | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | picking | pick | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 distracted | xcomp |
| 5 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 picking | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 each | case |
| 7 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 4 picking | obl |
| 8 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 each | fixed |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | distract | past · passive | They | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | pick | gerund | flowers | for each | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent flower=Theme for each=Beneficiary |
Option 2
They got distracted picking flowers and forgot to clear the fountain of leaves
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 distracted | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 distracted | aux:pass |
| 3 | distracted | distract | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | picking | pick | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 distracted | xcomp |
| 5 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 picking | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 forgot | cc |
| 7 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 distracted | conj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 clear | mark |
| 9 | clear | clear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 forgot | xcomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 fountain | det |
| 11 | fountain | fountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 clear | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 leaves | case |
| 13 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 fountain | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | distract | past · passive | They | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | pick | gerund | flowers | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Patient | |||||
| 3 | forget | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | not clear | to-infinitive | the fountain of leaves | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent fountain=Source |
Option 3
They raced round the fountain several times and then got distracted with leaves and flowers
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 raced | nsubj |
| 2 | raced | race | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | round | round | ADP | _ | 5 fountain | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 fountain | det |
| 5 | fountain | fountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 raced | obl |
| 6 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 times | amod |
| 7 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 raced | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 distracted | cc |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 distracted | advmod |
| 10 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 distracted | aux:pass |
| 11 | distracted | distract | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 raced | conj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 leaves | case |
| 13 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 distracted | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 flowers | cc |
| 15 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 leaves | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | race | past | They | the fountain | time | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round fountain=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | distract | past · passive | They not said here | then | with leaves and flowers | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
Option 4
They cleaned the stones and went home
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 cleaned | nsubj |
| 2 | cleaned | clean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 stones | det |
| 4 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 cleaned | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 went | cc |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 cleaned | conj |
| 7 | home | home | ADV | _ | 6 went | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | clean | past | They | the stones | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent stone=Patient | ||||
| 2 | go | past | They not said here | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.
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